Lorio v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

Appellant, John Lorio, was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to maintain lane and driving without a license.

Lorio’s sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in allowing the police officer to testify about Lorio’s numerical score on the Horizontal Gaze and Nystagmus Test (“HGN”). Lorio contends the HGN test is merely a field sobriety test with results that are either positive or negative and that the admission of the numerical score was highly prejudicial. We disagree.

This court has previously ruled that the HGN has reached a state of…